Unified converter! (InvPB, miniBB, PhpBB, vBulletin & YabbSE) (Page 2 of 5)

LOL, interesting.
I looked up his name and did an author search: the only time he posted in Feature Requests was to disagree with an idea

I've now sent an updated version to Rickard... should be up when he's online next time.

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2005-03-22
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 · InbPB: Fixed problem where user with id=1 was not
   converted properly (reported by kiplantt)
 · vBulletin: Fixed issues where "old" database fields,
   such as last_action and status, gave error messages.

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2005-03-15
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 · All: Removed 'closed'-variable from the forum-
   database-migration. (reported by Mike)
 · Phorum: Fixed a problem where guests posts
   disappeared (reported by Cyril)

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2005-02-22
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 · PhpBB: Fixed problem with closed forums
   (reported by Justin)
 · PhpBB: Users having a registered date in the form
   "Nov 10, 2000" now are have their registered date
   properly converted (reported by Justin)
 · Phorum: Fixed problem where the last-post-dates
   in viewtopic was not set properly. (reported by Cyril)

Hi,

I have converted from vbulletin to pun. Went well, thanks for that!

But I have some confusion with "categories" and "forums".

In vbulletin, I had all my 8 forums listed in the admin "Forum Manager". Each of these forums is enabled as "Act as Forum". According to the documentation:

Now, my 8 forums have come in as 8 "categories" in pub. Why? They were setup as "Act as Forum"!  How can I make sure I am converting correctly?

Thanks!

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SOLVED!
This was solved with Paul's recommendation
http://punbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=42385#p42385
I'll leave the text here in case someone searches in the future.
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I don't think the convertor even has a delete statement in it, so I don't see how that's possible

Odd, did you check the Userlist and find no accounts (I think passwords have to be changed when coverting from VB3, not sure)?
As for the forums, did you have them in a category? If not, read a couple posts up for someone who had the same issue

OK
There's an issue with converting that sets the Guest account to have member permissions.

To fix:

For non PHPBB users:
open [board you're converting from]/start.php
FIND

$db->query('INSERT INTO '.$_SESSION['pun']."users (username, password, email) VALUES('Guest', 'Guest', 'Guest')") or myerror('Unable to add guest user', __FILE__, __LINE__, $db->error());

REPLACE WITH

$db->query('INSERT INTO '.$_SESSION['pun']."users (group_id, username, password, email) VALUES(3, 'Guest', 'Guest', 'Guest')") or myerror('Unable to add guest user', __FILE__, __LINE__, $db->error());

For PHPBB users:
FIND

$db->query('INSERT INTO '.$_SESSION['pun'].'users (id, username, password, email) '."VALUES('1', 'Guest', 'Guest', 'Guest')") or myerror('Unable to add Guest-user', __FILE__, __LINE__, $db->error());

REPLACE WITH

$db->query('INSERT INTO '.$_SESSION['pun'].'users (group_id, id, username, password, email) '."VALUES(3, '1', 'Guest', 'Guest', 'Guest')") or myerror('Unable to add Guest-user', __FILE__, __LINE__, $db->error());

All this does is add the correct group_id setting

Hello.

I have had a skim through this thread, and I was wondering can this converter work for converting IPB 2 final to punBB?

Thanks in advance.

New version released... download at the punbb download page: http://punbb.org/downloads.php

Some changes:

Not easy to know everything works though, as there are _a lot_ of different foum setups / server setups... so please let me know if somthing isn't working (and do make a backup before using the converter!!).

Please help: i have mambo +simpleboard.
Coverting forum to pubb and coverter say:

>File: /home/eakvai/public_html/testas/forumai/punbb/converters/SimpleBoard/users.php
>Line: 49
>Converter reported: Unable to save to database.
>Query: INSERT INTO `eakvai_forumai`.punbbusers (id,username,email,num_posts,last_post,registered) >VALUES('82','aaaaaaaaa','aaaaaaaaaaaaa@pochta.ru','27','1125113389','1083546371')
>Database reported: Duplicate entry '82' for key 1 (Errno: 1062)

Only 2 user has this problem. In punbb db these users exist.

Please help? Its posible migrate only forum and post?

Im having a problem too, What does it mean by not converting passwords? Plus, all I can get converted is the users, no post get converted. Any ideas? I'am trying to convert from simpleboard! Help please.

Yikes. Ummm, I signed up without giving an email WAY back in the day. Thanks though, Looks like I may not be able to save my old forums.

Well, it is not in the PunBB community's interest to help people migrate away from PunBB. You should ask the phpBB community about that.